H G Wells and Raymond Postgate & J F Horrabin (17 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Maps and Plans By J. F. Horrabin (illustrator). Octavo, hardcover, . Red cloth boards in red dj with black lettering. Near fine in VG dj. 550 pp. Gives the story and aim of the outline. The world before man, the making of man, the first civilizations, Judea, Greece and India, rise and fall of the Roman empire, Christianity an d Islam, Revised and brought up to date by Raymond Postgate. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Horrabin, J F (illustrator). Revised Edition. slight tip wear; faded boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Brick red cloth with blue decoration and lettering on spine; Vol. I, 492 pages; Vol. II, pp. 493-1029 including index; ever so slight toning of pages; otherwise unmarked, clean, tight, attractive copies ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Good/Good. J. F. Horrabin, illstr (illustrator). Reprint. 8vo Revised and brought up to the end of the Second World War.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. J.F. Horrabin (illustrator). Book, binding and text in very good condition, DJ with tears on edges, Blue cloth binding with gilt decorated title on spine cover, tight and square no damage, top edge black, text clean and unmarked no names no stamps Illustrated , book I through VIII -1288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Horrabin, J.F. (Maps and Plans) (illustrator). Revised Edition. Very Good Condition. No dust jacket. Boards in great shape with minimal wear, volume 1 has some sun fading on the front and corners are lightly bumped. No marks on the text block. No marks of previous ownership or inscriptions. Includes both Volume 1 and 2.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Unclipped. Book club ed.; 2-vol. set: "Over 1000 pages 200 maps & Illustrations." 1027 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; some foxing on fore-edges; binding firm; unfaded sepia boards have minimal wear, being well protected by clean d.j.s that have incurred some edge wear while protecting the volume beneath as well as scuffing along upper portion of front panels. Open tear at upper margin of back panel of vol. 2. Extra postage required.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good++. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Garden City Books / Doubleday 1961 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Very Good++/ Volume 2 ONLY. Minimal wear to red boards, solid structure, previous owner's sticker inside cover, tight bright illustrated text. pages 505-1027 with index or 523 pages. NO DUST JACKET. Gutter Code "G46".

Hardcover. DJ have chips & minor tears along spine, edges, and folds, ; Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. Wells Revised and Brought Up to the End of the Second World War by Raymond; 200 Maps & illustrations. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket.

2 VOL SET, super octavo hardcover (VG) light cracking to gutters; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 volume set. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Red djs. Minor shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition with minor shelf wear to cover. Missing dust jacket. Pages show their age but are otherwise clean with no markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. J. F. Horrabin (Maps) (illustrator). Revised edition, uncertain printing. Two Volume Set. Volume I, xvii, [1], 492 pages, with footnotes, maps and illustrations. Volume II, [4], 493-966, [4] pages, with footnotes, maps, illustrations, Chronological Table, and Index. Covers have some wear and soiling. Spines chipped and frayed at top and bottom. Lengthy personal inscription from previous owner on Vol. II fep. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography and autobiography. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the "father of science fiction." A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction", while Charles Fort called him a "wild talent". Wells was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. James Francis "Frank" Horrabin (1 November 1884 - 2 March 1962) was an English socialist and radical writer and cartoonist. For two years he was Labour Member of Parliament for Peterborough. He attempted to construct a socialist geography. He illustrated H. G. Wells' The Outline of History in 1920. Raymond William Postgate (6 November 1896-29 March 1971) was an English journalist and social historian. The Outline of History, subtitled either "The Whole Story of Man" or "Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind", is a work by H. G. Wells chronicling the history of the world from the origin of the Earth to the First World War. It appeared in an illustrated version of 24 fortnightly installments beginning on 22 November 1919 and was published as a single volume in 1920. It was translated into many languages, and had a considerable impact on the teaching of history in institutions of higher education. Wells modeled the Outline on the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot. Many revised versions were published during Wells's lifetime, and the author kept notes on factual corrections which he received from around the world. The last revision which was published during his lifetime was published in 1937. In 1949, an expanded version was produced by Raymond Postgate, who extended the narrative so it could include the Second World War, and later, he published another version which extended the narrative up to 1969. Postgate wrote that "readers wish to hear the views of Wells, not those of Postgate," and he endeavored to preserve Wells's voice throughout the narrative. In later editions G. P. Wells, the author's son, updated the early chapters about prehistory in order to make them reflect current theories. The final edition appeared in 1971, but earlier editions are still in print. Wells saw in the bards who were, he believed, common to all an important "consequence of and a further factor in [the] development of spoken language which was the chief factor of all the human advances made in Neolithic times. . . . they mark a new step forward in the power and range of the human mind," extending the temporal horizons of the human imagination. He saw in the ancient Greeks another definitive advance of these capacities, "the beginnings of what is becoming at last nowadays a dominant power in human affairs, the 'free intelligence of mankind'." The first individual he distinguishes as embodying free intelligence is the Greek historian Herodotus. The Hebrew prophets and the tradition they founded he calls "a parallel development of the free conscience of mankind." Much later, he singles out Roger Bacon as a precursor of "a great movement in Europe . . . toward reality" that contributed to the development of "intelligence". But "[i]t was only in the eighties of the nineteenth century that this body of inquiry began to yield results to impress the vulgar mind. Then suddenly came electric light and electric traction, and the transmutation of forces, the possibility of sending power . . . began to come through to the ideas of ordinary people." Wells firmly rejected all theories of racial and civilizational superiority. On the subject of race, Wells writes that "Mankind from the point of view of a biologist is an animal species in a state of arrested differentiation and possible admixture . . . [A]ll races are more or less mixed.". As for the claim that Western minds are superior, he states that upon examination "this generalization . . . dissolves into thin air.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Horrabin, J.F. (Maps and Plans) (illustrator). Book Club Edition. H.G. Wells is remembered today as the science fiction writer who created "The War of The Worlds." Performed as a radio play, it struck panic in a large population of American people in 1938. But Wells was a very prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. This featured two-volume work might, in fact, be the most important work available for today's global population, who are panic struck about climate change, worldwide political movements, and other changes taking place that seem out of our control. In about 1920, he published "The Outline of History," that became at once very popular. It was translated into numerous languages and sold more than 2 million copies world-wide. Wells' purpose was to tell, "truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of life and mankind, so far as it is known today." He produced several revisions during his lifetime to keep it current. He worked to make sure it was written plainly for the general reader. The last revision in his lifetime was in 1937. It has many interesting perspectives on the thinking and actions of different leaders and cultures of different times.  H.G. Wells, in full Herbert George Wells, (1866-1946), English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, comic novels as well as this history. A relevant example for us today is his description of "Muhammad and Islam," which begins in Volume I, page 475 and continues into the beginning of the second volume. It would also do well for mankind of the earth today to read what Wells discovered about climate change, with no bias toward political or financial gain. Many revised versions were produced during Wells's lifetime, and the author kept notes on factual corrections he received from around the world. The last revision in his lifetime was published in 1937. In 1949 an expanded version was produced by Raymond Postgate, who extended the narrative to include the Second World War, and later revisions up to 1969. Postgate wrote that "readers wish to hear the views of Wells, not those of Postgate," and endeavoured to preserve Wells's voice throughout. This two-volume, book club edition, was revised and updated in 1961 by Raymond Postgate to bring the work up-to-date, to include World War II. Each volume is about 6? x 8 ½? x 1 ½? and bound in red paper-covered boards. This set retains the original dust jackets, which differ only by the designation of Volume I or II on the spines. The top edge of the panel across the front of each dust jacket notes "over two million copies published."  Volume I runs from i-xx, then page 1 to 504; Volume II from 505 to 1027 including an extensive chronological table and index. Both volumes in this set look as if they?ve sat on the shelf for all these years, with only slight signs of shelf-wear but one major flaws or damage to volume One: half a page was torn out of end papers of volume One. Minor nicks along edges & sun faded spines of DJs. Both volumes are tight and square. There is red-tint highlighting the top edges of the pages. The text itself is complete, clean and unmarked, however a POS on ffep of Volume 1 and stain on ffep of volume 2. . The dust jackets as might be expected show a bit of shelf wear and yellowing with age. The dust jackets have tears stabilized with tape. This is a complete set of one of Wells major works. It should also be noted that Wells' talent and skill as a writer is in evidence throughout and still relevant today. Copyrights 1961, 1956, 1949, 1940, 1931 & 1921. This production is 1961 copyright, as a "Book Club Edition." Print-run info not found. Manufactured in U.S.A. No LCCN, ISBN nor MSR. Due to the oversize and weight of the book additional shipping cost may be requested/required for EXPEDITED and OUT-OF-U.S.A. shipment in accordance with destination. Prior Owner Name No Value.